Pierre Lhomme Movies

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

Two men are in love with the same woman. One of them, feeling rejected, attempts suicide. The young woman finally decides to choose a third man. When...

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations...

A married couple is having sexual difficulties. The husband acquiesces in his wife's having a lover who visits her every Friday. The lover...

An adaptation of the Beckett play

This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

Godard's segment from the omnibus film "The Oldest Profession"

Catherine Varlin's 27-minute Playtime in Paris (1962) is almost a practice run for Le joli mai, a sampling that starts in a classroom and then...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from these letters, as the film shows a boat journey down the Seine,...

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

In 1962, in the small town of Marvejols, young technicians from the RTF are trained to what can and should be direct cinema. “Liberate the...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the letters, about the poetess’s Jewish past, while the...

The children of Allonville produce an audio-visual document which features, among others, the monster Pétrifix and his Prime Minister...

Exercise in Direct Cinema shows Pierre Lhomme working with an adapted Eclair camera. Shot as a 'master class' project by a film school, we see Lhomme...